DCHP-3

land portage

North
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a definite crossing place over land between two sea-ice routes.

Quotations

1951
Perhaps we were not too smart to try the land portage. We seem to have exchanged rough ice for rocks. Sometimes the slopes are so steep we have to pull the dogs; the next moment we plunge down into a gully, where our sleds disappear in the soft snow.